Hard Tools & Equipment Crossword Puzzle for Middle School
Size: 11Difficulty: hard
Challenge your knowledge of specialized tools used in lost languages and their scripts in this hard-level crossword puzzle, perfect for grades 6-8.
Cryptic Scripts of Fallen Civilizations is a hard crossword puzzle with 16 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Cryptic Scripts of Fallen Civilizations
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- 1. Nubian kingdom’s mysterious script, only partly understood today
- 2. Pertaining to carved symbol systems, often used for ancient Mayan language
- 3. Middle Iranian script transmission conduit for Silk Road texts
- 4. General term for archaic writing systems predating established alphabets
- 10. Obscure ancient Indic script known mainly from inscriptions in Himalayan region
- 12. Mycenaean syllabary undeciphered for millennia, successor to Linear A
- 14. An extinct West African script rumored but never proven
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- 5. Harappan civilization's enigmatic script defying modern linguists
- 6. Ancient petroglyphic script found in Italian Alps, a proto-writing system
- 7. Mystifying glyphs of Easter Island still resisting all deciphering
- 8. Wedge-shaped marks inscribed on clay tablets of Mesopotamia
- 9. North African extinct script linked to Libyan-Berber inscriptions
- 11. Aztec-era Nahuatl script term meaning sacred book or codex
- 13. Egyptian language’s last stage recorded in Greek alphabet with demotic additions
- 15. Late Egyptian script derived from hieratic, used for daily affairs
- 16. Refers to an extinct script family named after a mathematician, but puzzles mathematicians and linguists alike
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